Jack and the Beanstalk | Gene Kelly

Jack and the Beanstalk | Gene Kelly | Delightful

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	Jack and the Beanstalk Gene Kelly Hanna-Barbera, 1986 average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Emmy Award Winning Claymation which tells the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk in animation dance and music.

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Just as enjoyable and entertaining now as it was when we first saw it. Gene Kelly dancing with a mouse is most memorable.

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I was super-excited every time this 1967 special was going to be broadcast on TV when I was a child. I first saw it at the age of six. It was only shown once a year, and I was very sad when they stopped showing it. Hanna-Barbera's Jack and the Beanstalk is one of only very few films up to that time that had live actors interacting in a cartoon world with cartoon characters. At the time, I had only seen the technique used in Mary Poppins. Soon after this, the technique was used again in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks and in a Hanna-Barbera series about Tom Sawyer, and only rarely ever since.

I saw the film again recently and it is still delightful. Gene Kelly is a joy as always, and the songs are very pleasant. It's especially good for small children. It has the classy, optimistic, benevolent quality of musicals and other films made in the mid-1960s and preceding decades. (This contrasts with the cynicism, dark vision, violence and vulgarity that has permeated even children's films and musicals in recent decades.)

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